Deforestation in Indonesia is booming, even faster than in Brazil.

36,000 Egyptians have been arrested for protests since the coup against Morsi.

A clever unknown protester added labels to dresses in a store, saying "'Degrading' sweatshop conditions" and "Forced to work exhausting hours".

The law proposed in this article would be a good step forward, but really we should make the marketing companies that subcontract manufacturing responsible for the working conditions of their whole supply chain.

They should also have to register their subcontractors to all levels, which will have the salutary effect of impeding them from changing their supply chains so often.

Greenpeace urges Lego to drop a marketing arrangement with Shell.

Kiribati has purchased high ground in Fiji as a place to move once the islands of Kiribati are swamped by rising seas.

Does the US government have plans to move the graves of the US Marine cemeteries on Tarawa Atoll?

I don't think there is any intrinsic importance in how corpses are treated (including my own, after my death), but soldiers tend to consider this very important. Many US veterans are right-wing and some are global-heating denialists. This question might offer a way to make them face the facts.